Franz Waxman's Rebecca: A Film Score Guide - Paperback

by David Neumeyer (Author), Nathan Platte (Author)

Providing thematic analysis and situating the score for this classic work within the context of the composer's life and career, Franz Waxman's Rebecca: A Film Score Guide will be of interest to musicologists and film scholars, as well as fans of Alfred Hitchcock and the work of Franz Waxman.

Author Biography

David Neumeyer holds the Leslie Waggener Professorship in the College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. The majority of his research and publications have been on film music. Nathan Platte is assistant professor of musicology at the University of Iowa. His interests in film music, creative agency, and adaptations are reflected in articles published in Music and the Moving Image, 19th-Century Music, The Journal of Musicology, and multiple anthologies. Having recently co-edited The Routledge Film Music Sourcebook with James Wierzbicki and Colin Roust, he is presently writing a book on music in the films of David O. Selznick.